Chapter XXVII: The Conflict from the Restoration to the Revolution

⭘ Aim of the Chapter――Sentiments associated with the Restoration
――Scotland suffered more from the Restoration than England
――Sharp’s Mission to England touching the Church of Scotland;
the King’s Letter

⭘ State of the Scottish nobles――The Committee of Estates resumed
the Government――Public meetings prohibited; Books ordered to
be burned――A number of ministers, the Marquis of Argyle and
others, imprisoned

⭘ Meeting of Parliament; its proceedings――The Rescissory Act;
all opposition stifled――Trial and execution of the Marquis of
Argyle and the Rev. James Guthrie; Reconstruction of the Privy
Council; Reconstitution of the Court of Session

⭘ Reintroduction of Episcopacy; the new Bishops; the people
commanded to obey them

⭘ Second Session of Parliament; the Bishops resumed their seats
――The preservation of the King’s person and authority――The
Covenants condemned――Patronage restored――The Universities
purged and religious meetings prohibited――An explicit
declaration against the Covenants to be tendered to any one
――The New Hierarchy――Act of Indemnity

⭘ Meeting of diocesan synods――Three hundred ministers ejected
from their churches――Proceedings of the Privy Council

⭘ Contest between the heads of the Government; fall of Middleton
――Parliament reassembled; mode of electing the Lords of the
Articles――Oppressive Acts; the people commanded to attend
the parish churches; the ejected ministers prohibited from
preaching; Origin of Conventicles――Oppressive Acts of the
Privy Council

⭘ Persecution; soldiers enforcing religious conformity;
fining the people and cruelly oppressing them――Court of High
Commission established――Severe persecution; the limit of
endurance passed

⭘ Rising of 1666; the Insurgents defeated; treatment of the
prisoners; torture; military execution

⭘ An indemnity offered――Attempt to assassinate Archbishop
Sharp; escape of the assassin; renewal of the persecution;
a temporising measure tried

⭘ Meeting of Parliament; statement of the King’s supremacy in all
cases; the Privy Council invested with full legislative power
――Protection of the Episcopal clergy

⭘ Conventicles increasing; severe Acts against them――An Act
commanding the observance of the Anniversary of the Restoration
――An indulgence offered to the ejected ministers――A petition
from the Ladies to the Council

⭘ Persecution continued; the Bond and other oppressive measures;
Garrisons placed in private mansions; Letters of intercommuning
――Meeting of Presbyterian ministers――Sir George Mackenzie on
Conventicles; Proclamation against them

⭘ Mitchell apprehended for attempting to shoot the Primate;
irregularly tried and executed

⭘ Highland army quartered upon the disaffected people; the Bond
tendered; the soldiers ordered to kill all who resisted――A
special Commission to suppress the opposition to the Church
――Murder of the Primate

⭘ A reward offered for the apprehension of the murderers――A
public testimony against the Government――A Conventicle at
Loudon Hill; A skirmish with the Royal troops; Spread of
the Insurrection; Battle of Bothwell Bridge; defeat of the
Insurgents; Treatment of the prisoners

⭘ Indemnity――The presbyterian parties――Persecution continued
――Manifesto against the King and Government――A party of the
Cameronians surprised and slain――Cargill and others seized and
executed

⭘ Duke of York in Scotland――Meeting of Parliament, Act of
Succession――New penalties to be inflicted upon the disaffected
――Test Act――Trial and escape of Argyle

⭘ Declaration of the Society people, a series of sanguinary acts
intended to crush them――Violence of the Army――Death of Charles
II.

⭘ Accession of the Duke of York――Ideas associated with the
English Crown――Persecution continued――Meeting of Parliament,
speeches of the Royal Commissioner and Lord Chancellor――Cruel
enactments――Failure of Argyle’s attempt against the Government,
his execution――The prisons full of Non-Conformists

⭘ The King’s project of re-introducing Roman Catholicism,
he assumed the power of suspending and repealing the laws
――Execution of Renwick

⭘ The Crisis; the Prince of Orange’s Declaration; Meeting of the
Scotch bishops――Tumults in Edinburgh; Attack on Roman Catholic
Chapel――Alarming rumours――The Curates in the Western counties
ejected

⭘ Meeting of Presbyterians; Address to the Prince of Orange
――Meeting of the Scotch nobles, the Prince assumed the
Government of Scotland――Preparations for the Meeting of the
Convention

⭘ Meeting of the Convention of Estates, election of a President
――Letters from the Prince of Orange and King James――Excitement
in Edinburgh――Flight of Dundee to the North; intense excitement
in the Convention; the Covenanters called out――The Throne
declared vacant, and the Crown offered to William and Mary――The
Claim of Right――Adjournment of the Convention